{"product_id":"broken-ground-9780231201063","title":"Broken Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. \u003ci\u003eBroken Ground\u003c\/i\u003e also presents the latest run of Logan’s infamous poetry chronicles and reviews, which for twenty-five years have bedeviled American verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost reviews don’t deserve this kind of permanence. Logan’s do. \u003ci\u003eBroken Ground\u003c\/i\u003e is a showcase of his vastly learned and extraordinarily sensitive expertise on poetic language. -- William Flesch, author of \u003ci\u003eComeuppance: Altruistic Punishment, Costly Signaling, and other Biological Components of Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bracing collection of often lacerating criticism from poet Logan pierces the heart of poetry, revealing ‘what a poem is concealing.’ Logan showcases his ability to cut to the core of a poet’s or poem’s shortcomings . . . His candid criticism enlivens an often-stale atmosphere. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eLogan has certainly been a lightning rod among contemporary poet-critics. Some readers are outraged by what they feel are gratuitously personal attacks; others appreciate his mordant wit and trenchant style. For others still, his reviews are a welcome tonic to the fatuous and overblown style of the day, even a 'guilty pleasure.' * The Hudson Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Poetry and the Demon of History\u003cbr\u003eDickinson’s Nothings\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Song and Dance\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Collateral Damage\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, Reloaded (Alice Oswald)\u003cbr\u003eThe Beasts and the Bees (Carol Ann Duffy)\u003cbr\u003eTwo Gents (August Kleinzahler and William Stafford)\u003cbr\u003eKipling Old and New\u003cbr\u003eFrost at Letters\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Seeing the Elephant\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Civil Power\u003cbr\u003eSeven Types of Ambivalence: On Donald Justice\u003cbr\u003eA Literary Friendship (Donald Justice and Richard Stern)\u003cbr\u003eRandall Jarrell at the Y\u003cbr\u003eFlowers of Evil (David Lehman)\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: The Glory Days\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Doing as the Romans Do\u003cbr\u003eMeeting Mr. Hill\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Geoffrey Hill\u003cbr\u003eTwo Strangers (Marie Ponsot and Ishion Hutchinson)\u003cbr\u003eThe Jill Bialosky Case\u003cbr\u003eJill Bialosky, New Revelations\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Under the Skin\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Foreign Affairs\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Custer’s Tennyson\u003cbr\u003eSent to Coventry: (Larkin’s “I Remember, I Remember”)\u003cbr\u003eThe State of Criticism (On Being Asked to Write on the “State of Criticism”)\u003cbr\u003eThe Perils of Reviewing (On Being Asked, “What Are the Perils of Criticism?”)\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Home and Away\u003cbr\u003eVerse Chronicle: Hither and Yon\u003cbr\u003ePound’s China \/ Pound’s \u003ci\u003eCathay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterview with Jonathan Hobratsch (2015)\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: The Way We Live Now\u003cbr\u003ePermissions\u003cbr\u003eBooks Under Review\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Authors Reviewed","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400359649623,"sku":"9780231201063","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231201063.jpg?v=1730470490","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/broken-ground-9780231201063","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}